Counting the portage tree and distfiles, how big is it? Mine is in the 12-15GB range. I like to install cool stuff for school even if I only use it once or twice a month, so mine is usually around 12-15GB.

I cleaned out /usr/portage/distfiles so now it's down to 7.5. I do have a full GNOME install which I plan on getting rid of in favor of enlightenent and blackbox fulltime. (I had it on there in case other people use my compuiter but I have no life and no one else uses my computer)_________________If you get your problem solved put a [SOLVED] in the title!
Is OpenOffice still compiling?!

i run kde with goodies, and i use programs like nicotine, kile(tetex is prety big), matlab (installed in /home/matlab) and i recently installed all of sun-jdk and sun-j2ee in the hopes of getting sun studio 11 installed -- so far no luck. i run lots of lightwiehgt programs like pygmy for music, pine for mail, irssi for irc. i also have fluxbox, ion3, wmii installed for fun. i just installed lighttpd, but it sucks, so its going out the door.

all in all a prety streamline install, most of /usr is libs (i try many languages).

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